Quotes from Rudy Gobert

Bill Russell is one of the greatest players of all time.

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

At the end of my life, I just want to make sure I made a big difference in this world.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won't block the shot but I'm going to affect the shot or I'm going to affect the way they think.

Sometimes, I see the guys driving and they don't even look at the rim, they just dribble out so it's as good as a block or even better because I'm kind of laughing when I see that. That's what it's about.

Sometimes when you lose a game, you win a game, you get stuck in the bubble.

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

I might win a championship. I might win two or three. I might not. The journey to get there is, for me, the most important.

Even though I didn't have a lot of material things, I had the love and education and all together a lot of kids don't have the same chances, so the goal is to give some chances to the kids that don't have it.

I haven't scratched the surface of what I can become offensively.

I'm just working every day and keep watching film and keep building chemistry with my teammates.

I like to play basketball. Sometimes if someone takes that away from you, you've got to get in your feelings for a reason.

I think playoff experience matters for sure.

It's great to communicate as a team.

I want to be an offensive player, too. Play low post, midrange, take jump shots, and just be the best I can be.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

Defense is the thing we can control and bring every night. But I want to be great on both ends.

You don't have to think, you just have to play hard on defense.

I'd take the Defensive Player of the Year any day over an All-Star selection. There's only one of these in the whole league every year.

Some nights, you're tired. But I just like to go out there and help my team win and not let my team down. It's the least I can do.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

In the playoffs, it's not going to be pretty. There's going to be some games where you don't score. But are you going to take a charge for a teammate?

It's something I take a lot of pride in doing, in being the best defensive player in the world, in helping my teammates every night.